Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
National Capital Region
SCHOOLS DIVISION OFFICE
Quezon City, Metro Manila

NAT REVIEWER 2023

DIRECTIONS: Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on your answer sheet.
Use CAPITAL LETTERS.

1. What are the next two terms in the following sequence: ♦, ♡, ♦♦, ♡, ♦♦♦, … ?

A. ♡♡, ♦ B. ♡♡, ♦♦ C. ♦♦♦♦ , ♡ D. ♡, ♦♦♦♦

2. How do you find the next term in the following sequence −18, −20, −22, −24, … ?
A. subtract 2 B. add 2 C. subtract – 2 D. divide by 1/2

3. Write the first four terms of the sequence in which 𝑎𝑛 = 2 + (𝑛 − 1)3

A. 6, 9, 12, 15 B. 3, 6, 9, 12 C. 5, 8, 11, 14 D. 2, 5, 8, 11

4. Which of the following is an arithmetic sequence?

A. 3, 5, 7, 10, … B. 3, 6, 9, 12, … C. 3, 5, 8, 12, … D. 3, 6, 12, 24, …

5. Find the common difference in the arithmetic sequence 6, 4, 2, 0, . . .

A. 2 B. – 2 C. ½ D. 1

6. What is the formula used to determine the nth term of an arithmetic sequence?
𝑛
A. 𝑎𝑛 = 𝑎1 + (𝑛 − 1)𝑑 C. 𝑆𝑛 = 2 [𝑎1 + (𝑛 − 1)𝑑]
𝑛 𝑛
B. 𝑎𝑛 = 2 (𝑎1 + 𝑎𝑛 )𝑑 D. 𝑆𝑛 = 2 (𝑎1 + 𝑎𝑛 )

7. If the first term is 4 and the common difference is 2, how will you represent the 7th term?
A. 𝑎7 = 2 + (6)(4) B. 𝑎7 = 4 + (6)(2) C. 𝑎7 = 2 + (7)(4) D. 𝑎7 = 4 + (7)(2)

8. Which of the following is an example of a geometric sequence?

A. 20,15,10,5, … B. 9,0,0,0, … C. 1,4,16, 64, … D. 1,4,9,16, …

9. For which infinite geometric sequence can we have a sum?

1 1 1 1 1 1
A. 1,3,9,27 B. 1, , , C. 1,3, 9, 27, … D. 1, , , ,…
3 6 18 3 9 27

10. The sum of the terms of a finite arithmetic sequence is 228. If the sum of the first and the last
term is 38, how many terms are in the sequence?
A. 10 B. 11 C. 12 D. 13
11. Which of the following is the sum of all multiples of 3 from 15 to 48?
A. 315 B. 360 C. 378 D. 396

12. How many coins are needed to make a triangular arrangement of coins if the bottom row has 5
coins and each successive row has one less coin than the row below it?
A. 1 B. 5 C. 10 D. 15

13. Which of the following is a polynomial ?

A. 𝑥 −5 + 𝑥 2 + 3𝑥 + 6 C. 3𝑥 2 +
5
− 2𝑥 + 8
𝑥

B. 3𝑥 3 – 4𝑥 + 7 D. 4√𝑥 – 11

14. What is the degree of the resulting polynomial if 3𝑥 3 − 2𝑥 4 + 5𝑥 − 4 is divided by 𝑥 − 1?

A. 5 B. 4 C. 3 D. 2

15. Find the remainder when P(x) = 3x3 – 2x2 + 2x – 5 divided by (x + 1).
A. – 12 B. 12 C. – 8 D. 8

16. Given P(x) = 2x3 + 3x2 – 5x – 12. What is the value of P(3) ?
A. 56 B. 55 C. 54 D. 53

17. Which of the following will determine if (x – 2) is a factor of 2x5 + 5x3 + 2x2 – 8 ?

A. P(2) = 2(2)5 - 5(2)3 + 2(2)2 – 8 C. P(2) = 2(2)5 + 5(2)3 + 2(2)2 – 8

B. P(– 2) = 2(– 2)5 – 5(– 2)3 + 2(– 2)2 – 8 D. P(– 2) = 2(– 2)5 – 5(– 2)3 + 2(– 2)2 – 8

18. If the roots of the polynomial are 0, 3 and – 1, what is its factored form?

A. x(x + 3)(x + 1) C. x(x – 1)(x + 3)

B. x(x – 3)(x + 1) D. x(x – 3)(x – 1)

19. Which of the following is the set of all possible rational roots of 4 x + 4 x + x − 50 = 0 ?
3 2

 C.  1,2,5
1 5 25 1 5 25 
 1,2,5,10,25,50, , , , , , 
A.  2 2 2 4 4 4

B.  1,2,5,10,25,50 D.  1,2,5,10,25

20. Find the leading coefficient of the polynomial equation 121x2 – 5x11 + x8 + 2x5 – 50 = 0.

A. 121 B. – 5 C. 1 D. – 50
21. What are the end behaviors of the graph of P( x) = − x + 2 x − x + 2 x + 1 = 0 ?
4 3 2

A. Comes up from left and goes down to the right

B. Comes down from left and goes down to the right

C. Comes up from left and goes up to the right

D. Comes down from left and goes up to the right

22. Which of the following is a zero of the polynomial function P( x) = 4 x + 4 x + x − 50 = 0 ?

3 2

A. 1 B. 2 C. 5 D. 10

If 1 is a zero of the polynomial function P( x) = 3x + kx + 4 , what is the value of k ?

2
23.

A. 7 B. 1 C. – 1 D. – 7

24. A storage box has a length of (5x + 3) ft, width equal to (x+1) ft and a height of (x – 2) ft.
Which polynomial function represents the volume of the box?

A. V(x) =( x – 2 )(5x+3)(x+1) C. V(x) =(x – 2) – (5x+3) + (x + 1)

B. V(x) =(x – 2 ) + (5x+3) + (x + 1) D. V(x) =(x – 2) + (5x+3) – (x + 1)

For nos. 25 to 26, A rectangle has a length 2 centimeters longer than twice its width (x).
25. What expression represents its length?

A. 2x B. x/2 C. 2x + 2 D. x+2

26. What expression represents its area?

A. 4x2 + 4x B. 2x2 + 2x C. x2 + x D. x2 + x

27. It is an arc measuring one- half the circumference of a circle.

A. semicircle B. intercepted arc C. minor arc D. major arc

28. It is an angle whose vertex is on the circle and whose sides are chords of the circle.

A. acute angle B. central angle C. inscribed angle D. vertex angle

29. What is the measure of a central angle if its intercepted arc measures 38o?

A. 19o B. 38 o C. 76 o D. 142 o

30. In the circle on the right, if AC is the diameter, arc AB = 130°,

what is ∠1 ?

A. 300 B. 680 C. 650 D. 750

For numbers 31 – 32, 𝑃𝑇 is a diameter of ⊙ 𝑆 and 𝐴𝑃 is a chord.

̂?
31. If 𝑚∠𝑇𝑃𝐴 = 39°, what is 𝑚𝑇𝐴

A. 39° B. 51° C. 78° D. 90°

32. Suppose you draw chord AT, what is ∠𝑃𝐴𝑇 ?

A. 360° B. 180° C. 100° D. 90°

33. Evaluate: 12C4.

A) 385 B) 450 C) 495 D) 500

34. If C(n,4) = 126, what is the value of n?

A) 7 B) 9 C) 10 D) 11

35. Find the number of permutations that can be made from the letters of the word APPLE.

A) 60 B)120 C) 240 D) 600

36. Miss Cruz plotted some points on the board, no three of which are collinear. When she asked her
student to draw all the possible lines through the given points, he came up with 45 lines. How
many points were on the board?

A) 7 B) 8 C) 9 D) 10

37. From 6 boys and 4 girls, a committee of 5 is to be formed. In how many ways can this be done, if
the committee is to include at least one girl?

A) 246 B) 290 C) 315 D) 340

38. The subset of the sample space is called _______.

A) Events B)Experiments C). Sample Space D)Outcomes

39. Events A and B are defined by the sets {1, 2, 3, 4} and {3, 4, 5, 6}, respectively. What is the union
ofthe two events?

A) { 3,4 } B) { 1,2,4,5 } C) { 2,3,4,5,6 } D) { 1,2,3,4,5,6 }

40. The results of an experiment are called ____________.

A)Events B) Experiments C)Outcomes D)Sample Space

41. A fair coin is tossed three times. What are the events that at least two heads will come up?

A) {TTT, HHH} B) {HTT, THH, TTH} C)HHH, HHT, THT} D) {HHH, HHT, HTH,
THH}

42 How many possible outcomes are there when picking a red card from a standard deck of cards?

A) 13 B) 26 C) 36 D) 52
43. A pair of dice is rolled. What is the probability that the sum of the two faces is 9?

A) 1/36 B) 1/18 C) 1/9 D) 2/9

44. There are 4 blue balls, 5 yellow balls and 6 red balls in a box. What is the probability of getting a
blue ball or a yellow ball?

A) 2/5 B) 5/9 C) 3/5 D) 4/9

For numbers 45- 48

A year ago, Angela began working at a computer store. Her supervisor asked her to keep a record of
the number of sales she made each month. The following data set is a list of her sales for the last 12
months:

34, 47, 1, 15, 57, 24, 20,11, 19, 50, 28, 37.

45. What is the range of her sales for the last 12 months?
A. 42 B. 46 C. 50 D. 56

46. What is the lower quartile of her sales?

A. 16 B. 26 C. 44.5 D. 47

47. Find the percentile rank of a sale 34.

A. 50% B. 62.5% C. 66.67% D. 75%

48. Given the following scores: 23, 27, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 33, 37, 38, what is the 3rd decile (𝐷3 ) of
the scores?

A. 27.3 B. 28.3 C. 29.3 D. 30.3

49. In a 70-item test, Frankie got a score of 50 which is the third quartile. This means that___.
A. he got the highest score.
B. his score is higher than 25 of his classmates.
C. he surpassed 75% of his classmates.
D. seventy-five percent of the class did not pass the test.

50. In a 100-item entrance test in Batasan Hills Senior High School, the passing mark is the 3rd
quartile. What does it
imply?
A. The students should answer at least 75 items correctly to pass the test.
B. The students should answer at least 25 items correctly to pass the test.
C. Only the top 25% examinees will be accepted in Batasan Hills Senior High School.
D. Only the top 75% examinees will be accepted in Batasan Hills Senior High School.